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September 29, 2007

food additive designer of the year....

*sigh* - arg. my brain is just NOT working well anymore. really, no shit. I love how I am perfectly capable of working through complex thoughts in my head only to have them come out of my mouth in complete incoherent language resembling english, but not really. and what the hell is up with the whole negativity thing...what am I 13 and filled with pre-teen angst? (drama-queen much?) yes people, I am a diva in my own mind and the feather boas they are a flyin...just give me some "'pirin tablets" and I may pull through. Kiss but seriously, I think I'm just once again at the point of cluelessness and that drives me bat-shit insane....(and i'm taking a wild guess that bat-shit is indeed insane..i really have no proof)

 

 
 
 I guess my only real comfort is the hope that everyone else is as clueless as me. crazy loves company.

 

September 25, 2007

Learning is such a humbling process

 

Do you ever just have one of those days where you FINALLY get something after going through a process of fumbling through and having people look at you like you're crazy? Yeah...that would be me today. BUT, at least I got there Cool. I don't exactly have someone to bounce stuff off of...people are pretty much on a whole other level than me...and I'm really trying to get it. my brain hurts today, but after discussing it with someone who has learned that i need a little patience and realizes that i just plain have a different perspective..it all just became crystal clear...what i don't get is why didn't anyone explain this before??? arg. Painful the learning process is.....(I'm channeling Yoda now for some reason)... You know I was perfectly capable of installing MySQL on my own computer at home...I managed to get the blog thing up and relatively customized...by myself...hell I taught myself AUTOCAD...in 3D no less...I learned all sorts of things about polylines and exporting DXF files WAY before anyone else got it....but Good LORD there's just so much to know and I feel like that Far Side cartoon with the little kid and his brain is full and has to go home...that would be me today.

September 21, 2007

Happy Fall

Ah...fall...my absolute favorite time of year...the great pumpkin makes an appearance and everyone gets to eat pumpkin pie...or in my case pumpkin cheesecake (accept no substitute). The mood is actually quite content considering the floor is half gone...I got billed by the water clean up guys and holy cow ...it cost more to rip out the floor than it will to fix the thing. but i actually think I'll be able to get it fixed relatively quickly. It's interesting when insurance is involved how pricey everything becomes....on the personal project of me front, I'm doing quite well, and the mood reflects it...hopefully a certain individual is noticing it too, but I'm really trying not to focus so much on that as I just get all Clark Griswold about it and end up being an idiot (my attitude still needs some adjusting obviously). Note to self: watch Christmas Vacation, I love that movie. but seriously though, not a clue as to what to do so i'm thinking it's best just to be happy when good things happen and not worry so much. I think it must run in my family. My grandmother isn't doing so well and is having to go into assisted living...and she's not happy about it...at all. To the point where she's being quite the bi-atch to my mom, who in turn is stressing about it on top of the other stuff she stresses about on a daily basis...(seriously...this is how I grew up..) It's really difficult to break habits that have been pretty much handed down to you through genes and reinforced by lifelong role model behavior. I mean I'm an adult now and can see that it's just SO not worth fretting over every little thing...hence why i'm just not dealing with my neighbor to get my floor fixed...It's not worth it. I just want my floor fixed so that's what i'm doing. I think my main worry other than the family thing is my own life and slowly turning into the schnauzer lady...but you know the magic number is 3 right? I only have 2 schnauzers so i don't actually qualify ...yet...I'm noticing other women my age getting tatoos now...which...uhm ...no ...ouch. and eventually everything turns into looking like a sad shar-pei dog anyway...how is that attractive?

September 18, 2007

floor trauma drama

 
 Well it could be worse but *sigh* I thought I was done with this.
 
 

September 16, 2007

home repair...*sigh*

ok no , it wasn't actually the apocalyptic noah's ark flood of water, but it may has well have been. My pretty newish wood laminate floor is now a warped mess thanks to a neighbor's empty condo waterheater leaking all over the floor and seeping into my condo. her entire ceiling is pretty much gone along with half her walls. Luckily (!) the water heater itself is centered in the condos and my walls are roughly ok. so now i get to go through the process of getting another floor. and dealing with insurance...fun.

I'm trying to get out of this funk I'm in...sometimes it works...other times, I'm kinda inconsolable for whatever reason. Keeping busy has only gotten me so far and now i just seem busy all the time and tired. must find fun. :) 

September 09, 2007

family guy and wine : a good combination

exercise is good... so far I'm managing to make it creative brain time while repetitively torturing my body on an elliptical machine...good no? i definitely feel better anyway. I did do something brave and hopefully will not bite me in the ass in the near future. *sigh* this unrequited stuff sucks big time, but it beats the snot out of feeling sorry for myself and being stupid. ok, I tend to be awkward no matter what really but eh who isn't? Even Mel Gibson has done some stupid crap in his life. Why am I picking on Mel? First to come to mind I guess. Anyhoo, got a lot of work done this weekend and hopefully will be buying ticket to SF for October and new camera to take pics of said trip....

September 07, 2007

Dear people who waste my freakin' time

Banks who won't cash their own electronic checks....i curse you in 11 different languages. That is No way to gain a customer by telling them the only way you'll cash it is by signing them up for an account. I shun you. Yell

*sigh*...ouch. my back is hurting now from chiropracter visit.... For some reason when I got home I was freakin in a really bad mood only to find that "the office" wasn't on tv but to be replaced with....football...ugh. You know if they can invent a concept as stupid as speed dating, why can't their be speed sports...like football in 10 minutes...I mean people's attention spans have gotten shorter anyway right? and if you're team sucks, wait a week for new players...I'm on to something here I can feel it. So anyhoo, came home pissed, still don't know exactly why but not being able to watch Jim and Dwight was just the last straw....so I decided to channel it into working out for the second time in one day....(me! of all people!) so I wore myself out trying not to be pissed at whatever random thing that was pissing me off...and it didn't really work...so  I'm still in a really cranky mood only to be worsened by a bank that we will lovingly nickname "shitty-bank" who can't trust their own checks to cash. I think I know what's bothering me but it's not exactly suitable for the whole internet and frankly when it comes to this sort of thing, I'm usually just wrong all the time anyway overly-thinky and emotional...arggghh. 

September 04, 2007

uhmmm the eighties...are over people

Well it seems the eighties decade has reared it's over styled ratted head once again in the mainstream of america...all i can say is ew. I troll craigslist maybe once or twice a week because you never know...pretty much all my furniture with the exception of the bedroom is a la craigslist, granted the really nice stuff came from San diego craigslist...those people throw away good stuff. But here in the middle of Texas people are ludicrously thinking their old crappy 80's rounded wood furniture (with glass inserts no less!) are still valued at what they paid in the 80's for them.....uhm people? herringbone wood patterns and smoked glass are the spawn of the invention of laser cut computer driven furniture producing...in it's infancy...hence the large blocky ickyness that resulted and no amount of brass inlays will change that. *shudder* seriously this stuff should be burned and returned to hell from whence it came.

 

 

 

 
This is just wrong on so many levels.... 
ouch..my eyes!